Tag: Armenia

St. Mestrop Mashtots Order to Patriarkh Kirill of Moscow and All Russia

OCP- November 29, 2011

28.11.2011 President Serzh Sargsyan received Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians. President ... Read More

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill begins his visit to Armenia

OCP- November 28, 2011

28/11/2011 On 28 November 2011, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia arrived in Yerevan. He is accompanied by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, ... Read More

Church History now available in Braille for schoolchildren with visual impairment

OCP- November 19, 2011

By SIRANUYSH GEVORGYAN ArmeniaNow reporter 17/11/2011 The Bible Society of Armenia, by the initiative of the Christian Education Center of Mother See of Holy Echmiadzin, ... Read More

NKR President, AGBU board discuss development programs in Artsakh

OCP- November 18, 2011

17/11/2011 PanARMENIAN.Net - On November 16, President of Artsakh Republic Bako Sahakyan arrived in New York. On the same day, Artsakh leader met the president ... Read More

Diaspora communities celebrate Armenia day

OCP- November 11, 2011

11/11/2011 Leaders of the Armenian-American community and members of Armenia's diplomatic corps were honored with presidential medals for their service to the Republic of Armenia ... Read More

An Armenian Village Where Residents Don’t Curse and Don’t Watch TV

OCP- November 10, 2011

9/11/2011 Epress.am -- Blond and blue-eyed, in the mountains of Armenia, they are like aliens from another planet. All around, the villages of Vahagni, Gamzachiman ... Read More

Armenian-language classes taught in Iraqi city

OCP- November 10, 2011

10/11/2011 YEREVAN. - Armenia’s Diaspora Minister Hranush Hakobyan on Thursday received Archbishop Avak Assadourian, the Primate of Iraq Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church. They ... Read More

Bedrosyan: A Series of Firsts in Armenian-Turkish Relations

OCP- November 7, 2011

By: Raffi Bedrosyan 7/11/2011 During the third week of October several firsts were accomplished in Turkey, with respect to the future of Turkish-Armenian relations, the ... Read More

Defrocked Former Primate of Russia Plans to Sue Armenia TV for Slander

OCP- November 4, 2011

4/11/2011 Archbishop Tiran Kyureghyan, the former Primate of the Armenian Apostolic Church Diocese of New Nakhichevan and Russia, is planning to sue Armenia TV for ... Read More

Armenia’s President attends ceremony marking Catholicos’ 60th Birthday

OCP- November 4, 2011

4/11/2011 YEREVAN. – Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan attended, at the Holy See of St. Etchmiadzin on Friday, the Patriarchal Wish Ceremony marking 12th anniversary of ... Read More

Chairman of Caucasian Muslims will visit Armenia

OCP- November 4, 2011

4/11/2011 Chairman of Caucasian Muslims Board Haji Allahshukur Pashazadeh will visit Yerevan on November 29-30. Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II announced about this. Armenian ... Read More

Georgian and Armenian Church leaders still seeking a solution for disputed Churches

OCP- November 3, 2011

Etuna Tsotniashvili 3/11/2011 What is the situation in the dispute between Georgia and Armenia on the issues of Georgian churches on Armenian territory? This issue ... Read More

Tax Breaks Planned For Armenian Church

OCP- October 29, 2011

Sargis Harutyunyan 28.10.2011 In a further boost to the Armenian Apostolic Church, Armenia is poised to introduce major tax breaks for hundreds of worship sites ... Read More

Church and Taxes: AAC’s financial activities become subject of debate in Parliament

OCP- October 27, 2011

By NAIRA HAYRUMYAN ArmeniaNow correspondent 26.10.11 The feasibility of taxing church property has become a subject of heated debate this week as Armenian lawmakers adopted ... Read More

Armenians were baptized at St. Kirakos Church in Western Armenia

OCP- October 25, 2011

24/10/2011 A group of Armenians, raised as Sunni Muslims, were baptized on October 23 as Armenian Orthodox Christians at the historic St. Kirakos (Surb Kirakos) ... Read More

Annual Meeting of the Armenia Round Table Foundation

OCP- October 24, 2011

Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin 21/10/2011 On October 20, the 2010-2011 annual meeting of the Armenia Round Table Charitable Foundation was held in the Mother ... Read More

Turkey’s Armenians demand rights, not tolerance from State

OCP- October 2, 2011

YONCA POYRAZ DOĞAN , İSTANBUL 2/10/2011 A new study, which explores various issues faced by Turkey’s Armenians in the republican period, asserts that Armenian citizens ... Read More

The children of Istanbul’s ‘illegal’ Armenians; lost in the educational shuffle up until now by Alin Ozinian*

OCP- September 23, 2011

21/9/2011 News that minority schools in Turkey will be able to enroll Armenian children currently residing “unofficially” in Turkey with their parents who have come ... Read More

Reissue of Classic Cookbook by Multi-Talented Manchester Armenian

OCP- September 19, 2011

19/9/2011 Question – Aram Khatchaturian, the famous Armenian composer, stood in as godfather for the son of what Armenian painter, author, chief and restaurateur in ... Read More

Church cannot remain indifferent against emigration from Armenia – Catholicos of Cilicia

OCP- September 19, 2011

19/9/2011 YEREVAN. – We are concerned that emigration is continuing at the same rate, Catholicos of the Greater House of Cilicia Aram I stated during ... Read More

Catholicos of All Armenians Receives Dance and Song Ensemble “Dalar”

OCP- September 19, 2011

18/9/2011 On September 18, in the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, received the members ... Read More